Monica Montoya Update

The municipal court trial of Monica Montoya, 25, the Good Samaritan arrested in Roselle Park, has been postponed. Her lawyer, Martin Perez of New Brunswick, said he was not given a reason for the change from the scheduled Thursday date.

Perez described his client as "very, very frightened" by her experience.

``She is a very timid person,'' Perez said, noting she has turned down media interviews from throughout the Spanish-speaking world. ``She is afraid of the police and she is afraid of losing her job" at a coffee shop frequented by Roselle Park police.

Montoya, rushing to catch a bus to pick up her 6-year-old child at school, stopped to help a Spanish-speaking woman who had been struck by a senior citizens' van. When she tried to borrow a phone from passersby, she was knocked down and arrested by a Roselle Park police officer who claimed she had refused to help in the accident investigation.